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Diethyl ether behaves as base. Why?

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Oxygen atom in diethyl ether molecule has two lone pair of electrons available for co-ordination. Therefore ethers behave as Lewis base forming oxonium salts.
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  11. Sometimes explosionn occurs durring the distilliation of an ether Expl...

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  12. Explain why ArOR ethers are cleaved to give RI and ArOH rather than Ar...

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  14. Indicate steps which would convent: (A) Phenol to acetophenone (B)...

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  16. Give the product of the following reaction: (iii). Me-overset(O...

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  17. Sometimes exploson occurs during distillation of ether sample. Give th...

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  18. Choose the reaction in each of the following pairs that proceeds at th...

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